Art of banding



No Model.)

A. T. BREWER. ART 0? BANDING.

No. 417,808. Eaten-ted Bars. 21;, 1889..

rarest ALANSOTNQJIOWNSON BREWER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ART OF BANDING.,

. srsorrlcn'rron forming part of Letters ram is. 417,808, dated December 24, wee.

Application filed April 25, 1889. Serial No. 308,552. (No model.)

5T0 allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALANSON TOWNSON BREWER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk a band. Fig. 6 shows-a bundle .of wires with an endless band in position to be secured therein, and Fig. 7 shows the wires bandedwith the endless band.

My invention consists in securing a band in place by reducing its perimeter by pressure between dies, as will be more fully explained hereinafter. a

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 I have illustrated my invention with reference to the banding of projectiles, to which it is especially applicable, M being the projectile, m the band-receiving groove therein, and m one form of the band, the band shown in these figures being formed of a blank whose ends are preferably beveled, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. In Figs. 6 and '7, howeveflthe band is an endless band.

I have discovered that by subjecting metallie bands to great pressure between dies when the bands are properly situated (in respect of the article to be banded) to be forced home the bands are forced into place so firmly and tightly that they will seldom, if ever, become loosened.-

l n practicing my invention I prefer to sub- Fig.4 is a strip of metal from whichone form of band is. formed, and Fig. 5 shows the strip bent into' have hitherto been banded byhand, the band sa being hamlneredwhile hotdnto' grooves and the banded-shot'turned inlathes to bringjthe' periphery of the band flush with the ery of the shot and to finish the shot.

Shot banded, as described herein, by placing the band m in the groove m and thensubjecting the band and shot to enormous 6o pressure between dies are very much better and more cheaply banded than has hereto p'eriphe fore beenthe case.

In banding bundles of wire, for example, as shown in Figs.- 6 and 7, the spaces receive 5 the metal of the band when the band is subjected to pressure just as the groove m in the projectiles receives it, and in both cases theperimeter of the band is reduced and the band forced home upon the article to be banded in- 70 a more uniform and perfect manner than ever before. 11 x What I claim is- .The herein-described improvement in the; f

'75 the perimeter of the band and securing it in.

art of banding, which consistsrin reducing place by pressure between dies, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ALANSON TO\YNSON Witnesses: S.'E. FELT,

EUGENE M. Jounson. 

